Archive: Economic Development
Business Impact Assessment Project
Project: Using SC Johnson’s CCS business partnership in Kenya as a focal point, the SGE Immersion team evaluated existing tools and frameworks meant to assess BoP business success, and made…
Business Impact Analysis
Project: Principle Energy had launched an ethanol project in Mozambique where they anticipated creating 2,500 direct jobs and a cash flow of $3 million per year into a community where…
Investment Strategy Project
Project: The Plebys management team was planning to raise a new investment fund (Plebys II) that would invest in technology-based ventures targeting BOP markets. These technologies were expected to address…
Market Development Project
Project: Multi-sector collaborative effort to develop Shea butter industry to create economic opportunity for women in northwest Ghana
Business Growth Strategy Project
Project: The SGE Immersion team evaluated a commercially-oriented BoP investment strategy appropriate to the company’s goal of having $600 million under management by 2014.
New Business Strategy Assessment Project
Project: LBI was interested in starting one or more development funds to draw from multiple funding sources (e.g., foundations, government agencies, multilateral agencies, and private donors) to pursue multiple investment…
Socially Responsible Aggregation Platform
Project: One of the challenges that corporations faced in rolling out beneficial new services to the poor and disenfranchised, especially in rural areas, was that the basic structural elements did…
New Business Assessment
Project: IBM was in the process of creating a ‘Virtual Incubator’ to create an IBM-hosted enabler for the global business community facing challenges transforming innovative ideas into viable businesses. The…
Grassroots Business Fund
Project: GBF was at a point where it needed to take stock of what it had accomplished and identify how to project these accomplishments effectively for fundraising and partnership development.…
Market Expansion Strategy
Project: Grameen-Intel had been identifying tactical areas where technology could play a role in addressing healthcare and agriculture problems and had launched two pilot projects: the healthcare project and the…